I hate the word 'stink'. What words do you hate for no real reason?

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I dunno if it's just because I dislike it so much, but 'stink' or 'stinky' or 'stinking' seems to be written regularly on different posts. I hate it and no idea why really it's just a word

It's not even like it evokes an unpleasant memory, like of an awful odour or something. I have no logical reason for my not liking the word. Maybe just the way the k looks kind of sharp at the end, and abruptly finishes the word? And of course it does mean and unpleasant thing, whereas the word 'slink' does not necessarily...See, I told you it made no sense.

Also, belly. Again I can't really say why I don't like this word. I don't have such a violent dislike as in I don't mind other people using it, but would never use it myself.

What words do you hate for totally illogical reasons?

How can CAVEAT not be mentioned?

Also, the word FART!

I dislike the word ‘posh’. It seems to me to be the vocabulary of envy. Things can be expensive, or tasteful, or traditional etc but ‘posh’ is very othering and I perceive it as saying more about the world view of the person using the word than whatever they are talking about.

Meal 🤮

Glad to see a few mentions of poorly already! Not sure why it just gives me the rage!

Poorly pronounced Pauly is tolerable, but some people I know pronounce it poo-er-ly and that makes me think of diarrhoea etc 🤢

I clicked on the thread intending to say ‘meal’ and ‘supper’ thinking I was really original. I see I’m not.

Lunch
Hot 'meal'
Glass of 'fizz'
Super, as in super nice, super hard etc

Trope.

Sends me into orbit with rage.

When people add 'ass' to words, like 'grown-ass adult'.

WTF?!

So many of us hate ‘meal’
A lot of these words are to do with food/eating.

Digit
cahoots
apoplectic
disoriented

i also hate the way dh says ‘tooth’ - I can’t even write it phonetically, it’s like ‘tuuf’

my favourite word is cacophony

I have a list - but obviously no life 😁

Here is mine:

Pop of colour
Holibobs
Picky bits
Using singular - eg a lip, a trouser
Snack
Picnic
Beverage
Hubs
Hubby
Hun
Darling
Belly
Chuckle
Spends
Lush
Tasty
Meal
Platter
Snaps
Nom nom
Indulgent

Eldest. I can't say it and I can't read it without hearing my parents voices. It makes me shudder.

Picky tea

Panties actual shudders

Veggies
Brekkie
Cuppa
Plop

I also hate belly and poorly!

But also
Youth or youngster (when describing a young person)
And
Nourish

Chunks
Din dins

Runny
Sopping
Meal
Moist

'bloods' as a plural.

It is blood.

'Youse' as a plural. It is You (although I understand many European languages have a plural version of You which makes Youse in English less nonsensical'

'Et' as a past tense of ate.

That is the full extent of my irritation. Anything else i dion't care about.

Pamper (horrible sticky-sounding word, used by grown women who are undergoing cosmetic treatments and feel the need to justify it)
Poorly (I want to scream when I hear this word. Just so embarrassingly wimpy, whiny and babyish. It’s like seeing an adult coughing like a toddler with their tongue sticking out to try and get sympathy)

Bunch when used to describe a lot of items
"I did a bunch of jobs"

" I have a bunch of stools you can borrow"

God yes and this. My mother called her mother 'Mumma'. It annoyed me hugely because her mother was violent and alcoholic and got her children taken off her regularly fir beating them and on more than one occasion strapping them to the radiator while she went out to drink.

My mother calling her 'Mumma' used to make me feel nauseous. She was no mother and she deserved no cutesy nickname.